Well I’ve just talked to someone at Northwest Airlines (whose computer, just as I gave them the data on my flight, crashed and then I had to wait like 15 minutes for her to reboot), and changed my flight to April 16. My aisle seat is now gone, so its going to be 12 hours of pure hell squished in next to someone I may or may not know (I think most of the people at JCMU are leaving on my flight) not being able to escape and unable to fall asleep. Isn’t traveling fun???

So lets review all the charges I’ve had to pay on this flight:
$71.48 for my original round-trip ticket to Nagoya by way of Tokyo, thanks to 60k frequent flyer miles
$25 to change my flight to a direct Detroit to Nagoya flight
$25 to change my return flight from Detroit via Nagoya and Tokyo to Osaka to Tokyo
$50 to change my flight from April 17 to April 16

So I’m currently up to $171.48 for a roundtrip flight to Japan. Still doing pretty good, but then I asked about the charges for extra luggage. Since I flew here on the day before the weight requirement was going to change for luggage (going from 70lbs a bad to 50lbs) I was told that my bags could be 70lbs on the way back as well without any extra charge. However, today I was told that since my flight has been changed 2x now she wasn’t sure they would honor that anymore. So, for a bag going over 50lbs and under 70lbs its $25 extra. Now, an extra bag, up to 70lbs and 62in square, thats going to cost me 22,000yen, which at today’s exchange rate is $187, $16 more than what it cost me to fly from Detroit to Japan roundtrip. Ah, irony. So, the updated total (expected):

$171.48 for the plane ticket
$25 x2 for two suitcases at 70lbs each
$187 for an extra bag, because I have way too much stuff
=$408.48

$408 for a roundtrip flight to Japan? I suppose its not so bad if I think about it that way…………

Oh and, here are the inflight movies I’ll have to suffer through on the way back:
“Zathura”
Translation: English/Japanese

“Chicken Little”
Translation: English/Japanese

“Tristan & Isolde”
Translation: English

According to rottentomatoes.com, the second and third one get a 37% and 33% rating respectively. I’ve also been told by my mom that Zathura isn’t even a good copy of Jumanji. Ugh….someone give me some sedatives for the trip please. -_-

11 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!